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MERLiN Laboratories now open

Mace Experimental Research Laboratories in Neuroscience (MERLiN) is a new suite of laboratories located in the basement of the Malet Street building.

Professor Anne Richards is the director of these new facilities, which were named for Professor Cecil Alec Mace, noted psychologist and philosopher and Chair in Psychology at Birkbeck from 1944 to 1961.

MERLiN comprises:

  • acoustic booths for electrophysiological, optical and psychophysiological research
  • sound-attenuated booths for eye-tracking and behavioural research
  • research preparation areas
  • an open-plan office area for research staff and postgraduate students.

The new suite houses several research laboratories including:

  • Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience (Dr Naz Derakhshan, Dr Simon Green, Dr Matt Longo, Professor Richards, Dr Marie Smith)
  • Auditory Language Processing, Hearing, and Attention (Dr Jennifer Aydelott, Dr Fred Dick)
  • Social Interaction Laboratory (Dr Geoff Bird)
  • Vision Laboratory (Dr Alex Shepherd, Dr Tim Smith)

The research areas are equipped for electrophysiological, psychophysiological, vision, auditory, eye-tracking and general behavioural research.

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Issued: 28 January 2011

Issued: 28 January 2011

 
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